Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,512 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Hundred Dollar Valentine
Lowest review score: 10 Milk Cow Blues
Score distribution:
10512 music reviews
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gentle, Andrew Bird-style ballads bump alongside histrionic prog pop and four-to-the-floor beats on Ritalin-phased second LP. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sweet yet spiky soundtrack for our march into oblivion. [Jun 2014, p.89]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eerily pretty if a little ponderous. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seven Dials reminds us of the joy Frame finds in craft, its grateful rallentando endings, plum chord-voicing and exquisitely sung choruses elevating a work that seems part break-up album, part understated redemption story. [Jun 2014, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whether melodic and mellow or blown out and busy, this exhilarating ride through rock's back pages offers irrefutable proof that these Nordic giants are currently operating at the peak of their powers. [Jun 2014, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This a masterful, emphatic stuff, brimful of poignant insights and unforgettable melodies. [Jun 2014, p.92]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Amazing Snakeheads have delivered an album bristling with unapologetic rock'n'roll invective. [Jun 2014, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The tunes are a panorama of Crowell's favoured styles. [Jun 2014, p.91]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These are epic soundtracks for the lost adventurer within us all. [Jun 2014, p.91]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite berry's background in comedy there's definitely more of an air of homage than pastiche to this deliciously chilled album. [Jun 2014, p.90]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weiss weaves his way through a songbook that encompasses olde-tyme rock, jazz, R&B and Cajun sounds. [Jun 2014, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The delivery is relentless. [Jun 2014, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sung tentatively, a la Randy Newman. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Shrine deliver a cantering second LP full of heads-down charm. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Taylor Hawkins indulges his '70s hard rock fantasy. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His songs are hypnotic but oddly clunky vocals keep it earthbound. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Canadian duo's smooth blend of yacht rock, disco, Rick James funk and late-90s French house with lyrics that aim to pastiche modern R&B tropes. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    May
    May's 10 songs are barely there yet carry genuine emotional heft thanks to Voss Romme's tremulous, close-up-and-personal vocal delivery. [Jun 2014, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a renewed vigour to its frugging mix of vintage synths, barking-dog bass stabs and jagged electric guitars. [Jun 2014, p.94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Double Life, a thoughtful country-blues, is actually deeply touching, and Night At Lake Unknown is a soft, sweet Hank Williams Lament. the rest can be broadly summerised as Eeyore on Quaaludes. [Jun 2014, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At Asiatisch's heart is bass, gargantuan and window rattling, around which she builds an elaborate framework of complex rhythms and melodies using analogue hardware. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressive, beautifully poised stuff. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shakedown and Sell Your Soul feel triumphant in a way indie-rock has rarely managed of late, while an intoxicating weirdness drives even their most anthemic moments. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sheezus makes for the slightest of returns rather than a glorious resurrection. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hyde and Eno's voices knit together well and the album is full of surprises. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live Rain is a concert album like they used to be: prime Howlin Rain, only longer, louder and more full-blooded. [Jun 2014, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anyone seduced by the standout Wounded Rhymes track Sadness Is A blessing will be left winded by the even more sorrow-stricken I Never Learn. [Jun 2014, p.92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] gorgeously appointed escape from rock'n'roll's habitual savagery. [Jun 2014, p.89]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A more contemplative tUnE-yArDs? No bad thing when the goose-bumping post-punk gloaming of Time Of Dark is among the unexpected bonus. [Jun 2014, p.88]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though songs including the shimmering So Now You Know and the Manuel Gottsching-like In And Out Of Sight maintain a stirring balance of shimmying pop appeal and experimentation, elsewhere the momentum is compromised and peaks are obscured. [Jun 2014, p.88]
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